Doug Chamberlin wrote: > CubicDesign wrote: >> I just wanted to create a piece of code that is supposed to crash (AV) >> the program. >> >> And >> >> var t: tobject; >> begin >> t.free; >> end; >> >> should do that. Right? > > What makes you think that? > > Local (stack) variables are not automatically initialized, so the value > of t is random until you assign something to it. That means sometimes it > will have a value that causes an access violation and sometimes it will not. > > Try assigning it the value nil. Then you be assured to cause a problem.
No, then you will be assured to _not_ cause a problem. It's always safe to call Free on the value nil. -- Rob _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
